Pith Number

pith:AUZFSG5X

pith:2016:AUZFSG5XDLT5H6OD4YRSA7GP7T

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Demonstrating an absolute quantum advantage in direct absorption measurement

Alex McMillan, Javier Sabines-Chesterking, John G. Rarity, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Patrick Birchall, Paul-Antoine Moreau, Rebecca Whittaker, Siddarth K. Joshi

arxiv:1611.07871 v1 · 2016-11-23 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{AUZFSG5XDLT5H6OD4YRSA7GP7T}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:56:59.638354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0532591bb71ae7d3f9c3e623207ccffcd8992a2f6f50daa7aac80700a19b1bb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.07871 · arxiv_version: 1611.07871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.07871 · pith_short_12: AUZFSG5XDLT5 · pith_short_16: AUZFSG5XDLT5H6OD · pith_short_8: AUZFSG5X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AUZFSG5XDLT5H6OD4YRSA7GP7T \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0532591bb71ae7d3f9c3e623207ccffcd8992a2f6f50daa7aac80700a19b1bb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ea4c968df72ea06bf00121afb5701e7a07c49b5b2b15ec1ae6f4120af29c711",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-23T16:37:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49dcf4bd5bb2ae559bd2faf2d0c99ceb1fe7a0f76c95b220c9083e1ae059e0b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.07871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}